Obviously endebted to Ecclesiastes, thus the reference in the title. And, MadMaggie inspired the first line, while the second line has been without a verse for a few days.
The first line (the one inspired by your phrase "as humans we exist in a kind of harmonic dischord"), isn't so much an oxymoron though. . .More of a musical description of delicious tension moving into joyous consonance. Romantic Era music is replete with such tensions, and it's what makes music good. (well, that and a decent rhythm). My theory teachers always said that harmony wasn't simply the consonance of the major third, perfect fifth and octave, but was in fact the interplay of dissonance and consonance. IV-V-I is perfectly boring without a ii,ii, vii, vi (inverted!) and others thrown in.
"Living in Harmony" means a lot more than most people think.
"Harmonic discord" is what makes music music. One can say that a symphony is sonic chaos, harnessed, focused, and controlled. a little chaos in my globe of peace, a little discord in my harmony, a little tabasco on my eggs.
I think what made that line pop in my head was that lately I have been giving a lot of thought to human emotion and how I do not believe it can exist in what modernists have termed "rationality". The word rationality implies a continued pattern of thought, which can be mapped within the individual, but not really within the world populace at large. If it could then all relationships would be easy and we would never have to second guess whether someone was lying to us or being honest. I have a deep love for people, but at the same time I can not pretend that they do not aggravate and repulse me. Much like the poem I just wrote it is all love-hate, harmonious dischord, opposites that are all encompassed within the same world, within my life
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Honestly, that is so typical. People screaming for peace, destroying public and private property for peace. . . all too common these days. But then, as I think I've stated, I do not think Peace can ever be a worthy goal in and of itself. Those who desire peace above all else. . . I think they have the wrong goal. And I think this is evidenced by the frequency with which they will pitch fits and scream and literally attack anyone who has any sort of question for them that makes them the slightest bit uncomfortable. Because their Goal, and thus their Premise, is faulty to begin with.
Yes, I think peace as generally concieved is a good thing, I just think that it can only come about as a result of something greater. It's like trying to manifest an apple without a tree. The tree must come first, or else any attempts will fail--some more horribly than others.
Rain without sunlight, The Flood
ah so true...
I like it very much!
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Obviously endebted to Ecclesiastes, thus the reference in the title. And, MadMaggie inspired the first line, while the second line has been without a verse for a few days.
anyway, glad you liked it!
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"Living in Harmony" means a lot more than most people think.
"Harmonic discord" is what makes music music. One can say that a symphony is sonic chaos, harnessed, focused, and controlled. a little chaos in my globe of peace, a little discord in my harmony, a little tabasco on my eggs.
Mmmm, tabasco. . .
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Yes, I think peace as generally concieved is a good thing, I just think that it can only come about as a result of something greater. It's like trying to manifest an apple without a tree. The tree must come first, or else any attempts will fail--some more horribly than others.
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